Steffi Graf Quotes

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

Steffi Graf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: June 14, 1969

Topics

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Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.

Andrew-Lee Potts

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When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Andrei Platonov

LiveThinkingYouNothingInside

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

Robert Gottlieb

LoveNaughtyPlayingBeingEnglish

The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure.

Steven Stucky

AdventureMeSmallDirectionNew

There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.

Siri Hustvedt

SchoolMeHigh SchoolClassHigh

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

Joshua Foer

FamilyTodayHeartFriends And Family

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.

Jason Bateman

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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

Don Rickles

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All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Denis Johnson

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Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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My father passed me the concept that vicuna was something very special, very expensive. So it was a question of pride. I didn't want anybody else in the world to be touching vicuna before us.

Pier Luigi Loro Piana

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